Calculation accuracy
Inputs, tax treatment, thresholds, rounding, and outcomes that withstand review.
For AuraOne's specialist review team
Tax AI needs more than correct answers. It needs reasoning reviewers can trace.
What I noticed: AuraOne needs tax-domain reviewers who can test calculations, regulatory treatment, and the reasoning behind an answer. My background combines tax administration, audit support, tax-system QA, and software delivery.
CDTFA statutory-compliance QA60% fewer processing errors50+ requirements reviews
Mark AbellaTax technology · business systems · software delivery
30-second brief
One risk, one solved parallel, evidence nearby.
What AuraOne is protecting
Confidence behind every AI-generated tax answer.
Regulatory alignment
Federal and state rules applied to the correct facts, period, and jurisdiction.
Reasoning quality
Clear assumptions, traceable authority, and conclusions that follow from the evidence.
How I read the role
One continuous chain from prompt to defensible result.
Frame
Identify the tax question, facts, jurisdiction, filing period, and assumptions.
Calculate
Reperform the math and test thresholds, ordering, rounding, and exceptions.
Validate
Compare the treatment and conclusion with authoritative tax sources.
Challenge
Probe unsupported claims, hidden assumptions, ambiguity, and edge cases.
Score
Document the defect, evidence, severity, and corrected reasoning clearly.
A small work sample
The evaluation record I would want a tax-review team to receive.
This is an illustrative structure—not a claim about AuraOne's internal process.
Tax response evaluationTraceable by design
- Question and facts
- Taxpayer facts, filing period, jurisdiction, stated assumptions, and missing information
- Authority
- Applicable federal or state rule, effective date, and source
- Calculation
- Reperformed math, thresholds, ordering, rounding, and tax treatment
- Reasoning
- Whether each conclusion follows from the facts and cited authority
- Defect
- Unsupported claim, omission, ambiguity, compliance risk, or calculation error
- Correction
- Concise explanation of the correct result and the evidence supporting it
Why I may be a strong fit
Tax judgment meets software delivery discipline.
Pre-production testing of California sales-and-use tax products using structured test data; validated tax-rate math, calculation logic, statutory compliance, and edge cases.
Built a workflow-integrated tax calculator that contributed to a 60% reduction in processing errors and 30% reduction in assessment-processing time.
Participated in 50+ requirements and design walkthroughs, documented workflows, and investigated complex production issues across tax-processing systems.
Passed all three parts of the IRS Special Enrollment Examination; Enrolled Agent enrollment is pending.
The conversation I'd welcome